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Kaituna River District Act 1926

Local Act	1926 No 19
Date of assent	11 September 1926

Contents

2 Interpretation

3 General powers of Board

4 Special powers

5 Board to give notice before exercising certain powers

6 Failure to send notice or hear objection

7 Board to approve of drains and other works

8 Obstruction of flow of waters

9 Property, works, &c, vested in Board

10 Penalty for damaging property or doing act in contravention of the Act

11 Penalty for failing to comply with Board's order

12 Receipt of order or notice

13 Board may enter on lands

14 Purchase of lands in lieu of compensation

15 Board may sell or lease lands

16 Notice to be given to local authority of works likely to interfere with road, &c

17 Notice to be given by Drainage Board before construction of new work

18 Saving of work under construction and of maintenance

19 If no objection to notice, work may proceed

20 Section 73(2) of River Boards Act 1908, not to deprive Board of jurisdiction

21 Ratepayers and their voting-powers

22 Special powers of rating

23 Separate rates

24 Classification of lands

25 Properties may be classified as a whole or may be divided into parts for classification

26 Appeals against classification

27 Board may adjust anomalies in classification

28 Separate accounts to be kept

29 Rating to be on acreage basis

30 Raising special loans

31 Person on ratepayers roll not entitled to vote if exempted from rates

32 Petition for amendment of classification

33 Cost of raising loan to be paid out of preliminary expenses

34 On payment of $2,000 by Arawa District Trust Board towards Maketu outlet Native lands owned by members of Arawa Tribe not to be rated

35 When works affect railways, consent of Minister required

36 Power to make by-laws

An Act to make Provision for the Improvement of the Waterways of the Kaituna River and its Tributaries, and for the Protection from Damage by Water of certain Lands in the Auckland District.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—